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To: geode00 who wrote (261799)	4/18/2008 1:00:08 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 281500

There data is incorrect. $2.650 billion isn't the outlay for 2009. United States federal budget, 2009 - $3.10 trillion en.wikipedia.org Outlays for 2009 3,107 bil asksam.com "President Bush's fiscal year 2009 budget totals a record $3.1 trillion" voanews.com The bigger mistake is their figure of $484bil for past military spending. They only get such high of figure by counting 80% of all federal debt as debt for military spending when military spending has never even approached 80% of federal spending in the post WWII period and its about 1/5th now. They also count the biggest part of federal spending (entitlements) as if they where zero. What they call "the government deception" doesn't properly account for all military related spending, but it is closer to the truth than their own extreme distortions.

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